What Makes the Working Class a Revolutionary Subject? Michael A. Lebowitz is professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and the author of Beyond Capital (Palgrave Macmillan), Build It Now, and The Socialist Alternative (both on Monthly Review Press). This is the preface to the forthcoming Iranian edition of Beyond Capital. […]

Capitalism, Crises, and a Socialist Alternative: In Conversation With Michael A. Lebowitz by Rebekah Wetmore and Ryan Romard reposted from Monthly Review Press Rebekah Wetmore and Ryan Romard (RW/RR): The crisis of world capitalism starting in 2007 was the most severe crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression and thus far the recovery, both globally […]

Two reviews of “The Contradictions of Real Socialism: The Conductor and the Conducted” By Michael A. Lebowitz. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2012. 1. Reviewed by David Cohen “The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990’s brought forth an abundance of declarations that socialism was once and for all dead. However, for some, […]

I have time to read and I recommend on socialism, past failures,wrong vanguardism leadership plus Marx for human development the following – not a review, but a promotion. The Contradictions of “Real Socialism” The Conductor and the Conducted by Michael Lebowitz Published by Monthly Review Press 2012 On Kindle, Sony Reader, Nook. I recommend debating […]

Dear friend, SEARCH Foundation decided at its last AGM to make building an alliance against the Right our main political priority for this year. On the 7th of April at the Secure Jobs Green Future Conference Sydney there is a panel plenary session on strategies for the left to which I will contribute as SEARCH […]

Matt Cowgill’s research is good. Unionists are armed with key facts and arguments. Please download and read his Report “Shrinking Slice of the Pie.” Here is ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver. A shrinking slice of pie: new research shows wages share of national income falling behind profits “New research by the ACTU reveals that wages have […]

Posts on peace activities. Steve Bell in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/mar/15/steve-bell-iraq-war-video 1. “March 18th 2013 marks a decade of war in Iraq. In 2003 million’s of people marched around the world to say NO to war in Iraq and 70% of Australians opposed our involvement. Prime Minister John Howard had already made the decision to support […]

I am publishing four submissions to the Minister of Defence’s DEFENCE WHITE PAPER 2013 1.MAPW “Thank you for the opportunity for the Medical Association for Prevention of War to make a submission to the development of the 2013 Defence White Paper (DWP). As an organisation of physicians and other health professionals concerned about the impact […]